I was sign up number 3. I emailed Spez his own source code because he had the error reporting on his Web Server set to "VERBOSE".

I was permanently banned for an answer in an AskReddit thread that amounted to "what is true in your line of work that you can't say". My answer was that (edit: as I work in a highly female-dominated field of social work 30 women for every man).... non-males are insanely violent and one of the huge lies that is held in the public consciousness is that "men are the violent ones" when the reality is all people are violent, and there's a tremendous amount of IPV especially in same-sex partnerships. Banned for "advocating violence".

Edit oops I edited the wrong comment lol

I left with my 14 year old account after they banned third party apps. Moderating large communities (1M+) with the official app was impossible, and I was moderating 3 of those, plus a bunch of smaller ones. I did Secret Santa 4 or 5 times (move countries frequently for my job, so it wasn't always feasible), and still have the Guinness World records certificate somewhere, plus a lot of free merch from the mod appreciation giveaways back when they weren't a shitcorp. Leaves quite the bad aftertaste.

Pretty sure that by now I'd have been banned as well, I never held back with dark humor and speaking out against evil corpos. In a way I'm glad I left on my own terms before it all went fully to hell.

I was a 12 year member with nearly a million karma. I was permabannef right after the inauguration, for repeating an anti-HitlerPig opinion I'd repeating numerous times before he was elected.

I came to Lemmy and found out I wasnt alone, i was part of a bloodbath. I've seen posts from many people with 10+ year accounts who were banned. We're the people who built that site, and made it what it was. Somehow we managed to be active for over a decade without a problem, but suddenly we all became violators in the same month, and need to be banned.

Now we find out Spaz wants to buy TikTok, AND The MuskRat threatened him. No doubt the threat was that if he had a prayer of being awarded the privilege of buying TikTok, he was going to have to obey, and violate Reddit's foundational free speech mission. The classic Reddit is dead.

And they deserve to die out like MySpace. Fuck Reddit!!

I contributed to Reddit for 4 years and I got banned supposedly for posting putting down a bull terrier that violently attacked a family member and their was a child in the family,

I have a suspicion that my negative political comments about what is happening in Government may have been the real reason

All my friends that were on Reddit have been banned they are all good people with views

No free speech on Reddit it will gradually die

It's weird how they allowing Sinese to promote himself, he acts like hes weirdly a Veteran, just because he was in the infamous movie, of course he's a Republican around the same time stewart was supporting vets. I was saying he was virtue signalling so hard.

Either you die a hero or lives long enough to become the villain...

Appears to apply to companies, too

its only use now is a propaganda machine, much like X is now, or it will be soon like X.

It’s not even about banning people, it’s about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you’re actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders

If they'd been stalwart about banning automation and keeping original, legit human content pure, they probably could have used it as a fountain of fresh data for AI, for polling, for engagement farming, and for promotion.

The site was still growing even despite the admin induced atrophy. But they just couldn't resist killing the Golden Goose.

Sadly I'm sure he already has a golden parachute prepared.

I can’t even think of a time in history where someone was a huge piece of shit in America and “lost everything.” Maybe R Kelley, P Diddy, and Bill Cosby? But only for the time they spent in whatever rich guy jail they got to go to and then they were fine.

Greedy pigboy flew too close to the sun.

I too want to board the schadenfreude train. Choo choo. Fuck u/spez

He will exit filthy rich way before that. That’s the point.

Would he not have already sold most when they went public?

Surprised r/Nintendo isn't just straight up nuked.

Came over during the great 3rd party app API debacle. It didn't even make the list. Am I old now?

Full AI moderation is what killed it, it was liberally and indiscriminately banning people last month with the slightest indiscretions

Corporate social media was a mistake. Genuinely, I lay a lot of why the state of the western world is the way it is at the feet of Zuckerberg and his peers.

Reddit had shareholders before their IPO, they just weren’t public shareholders.

Reddit banned me for saying mean things about Elon and I'm not going back. Good riddance.

Yeah I made the jump a while back with the API thing, welcome

I got banned in 2022 for hate speech against Cops. Ive been lurking with libreddit.

The Voyager iOS App makes it feel like I never left.

More or less. There aren't as many bots, and everyone is generally aware of traditional Internet etiquette (i.e. don't be an asshole). Lemmy also feels as homogenous as early Reddit: college-educated white people in western countries.

I started joining forums back in the late nineties and I've learned every place on the Internet is in flux. Things always change. Back in the day, stuff would happen like we would lose hosting because someone got sick of running a niche phpBB forum or the moderation team would change. When social media kicked off, changes were driven by money. Facebook was a big gaming platform in my college years (Farmville), which feels completely foreign to today's Facebook.

The smaller the community, the more stable it is. Some of those 20-year forums still exist, albeit in a much more diminished state. If a site/platform gets popular, that's when things can change quickly.

Lemmy has already changed since I joined and I'm sure it will become something different in the future.

Welcome! I came in with the blackout a year or so ago, it's been fun to see more people show up over the months!

Sync for Lemmy feels just like Reddit is Fun (RiF). So good

If it makes you feel any better, Reddit is and always has been shit. From their "fake it till you make it" days to the "narwhals and bacon" and then the RealFeelz(TM) community make-believe. It's the people that made it what it was, the platform has always been a steaming loaf of shit.

edit: Oh wait, how could I forget the ViolentAcrez days. The LARPing mental case that had 300 accounts and VPNs before most knew what that was, and spent his entire LIFE trolling until he got found out by his employer who very publicly humiliated and fired his ass. The same fuckwit that Spez partnered with to run all kinds of scum subs like JailBait, etc. Reddit is shit, made by shit people. Good people accidentally found it now they're leaving.

Edit... Oh what else? I was literally there before commenting so let me just see if I can pull from the steaming shit pile of reddit experiences I've had over the decades...

Does anybody remember her name? I want to say ... S... Sahaya? Sahasha? I could be way off the beam so don't let those guesses mislead you. There was a female who represented herself as a massive pillar of the community and posted almost 50% of the content. I and a few other people meticulously tracked down the fact that she in fact was an online marketer acting in a stealth capacity. The more savvy and experienced users at that time, remember this was like 2002-4(?), we could see through the ruse based on the pattern of her posting. Literally within 10 minutes of revealing the truth about her, she vanished, never to be seen again. So yeah literally the entirety of Reddit was a giant advertisement at first.

What else now? Let me have a few more bowls and I'll see what else I can recall.

Feels that way to me. I wasn't there like at the very beginning, but was able to be in a few small subreddits turn big. Some turned to shit, some turned okay. Lemmy/mbin a.k.a. threadiverse seems like it was before my time I started with reddit

Politics are hotter than old Reddit, but I guess that goes with the times.

The "federation" aspect is pretty different in a good way. You see a lot of integration with Mastadon, for instance, as the Fediverse is trying to integrate with itself, and each Lemmy instance is like a little fiefdom with its own flavor and subs, whereas Reddit was always more of a monoculture.

Reddit was killed by spez. RIP. Long live Lemmy! Hopefully it’s insulated from meddling by venture capital.

Who told you these lies? Lemmy took the bad parts and called them features.

I left because once you see that most posts are just commercials and advertising and then you realize how they sell our attention span instead of paying us for it then I left. I don't work all day just to come home and make someone else money. Cut me in or eat shit.

That’s actually the main reason most left, Lemmy has never seen a bigger increase in MAU before or after the death of 3rd party apps.

Not to say the other stuff isn’t important, but for me Reddit WAS Apollo. Without it, it didn’t even feel like the same service. Enough people felt the same about their preferred apps that they left en masse in 2023.

Yeah, I came here when they did the API thing. I was spending too much time on reddit anyway, now I'm reading and gaming more in my free time.

The Reddit app and site are bloated bullshit. It’s an insult that they want you to use that. Lemmy with Voyager is the experience I like.

That was indeed awful, but I put up with it (and the app even improved a bit over the last year or whatever). The thing that made me finally leave was posts being shadow deleted for simply saying a man's name and then being threatened with bans for upvoting the "wrong" content. Absolutely not.

Idk, I doubt the advertising partners really have a problem with reddit porn. This dip is likely a reflection of the article linking reddit moderation policies to Elon Musk (absolutely hilarious that he's so toxic to stocks he's killing other people's companies now). I don't think this is even a reflection of a drop in users yet,

Tbh I think X has the market corned there.

It's got triple digit p/e. The stock is doing fine.

literally one of the 2 reasons I haven't quit reddit completely (the other being I'm slowly deleting all my comments)

Pump and dump

Yeah this is one of the obvious faults in capitalism.

The same thing will happen to Apple and Costco eventually.

so huffman and the c-suite can dump thier stock, they did it a while ago.

Surely people will enjoy pay walled content.

They source the data for AI.

However, their owner is a duck so he's prob gonna atrophy users away, so it's not an investment you'd go long on.

I'm so glad it will create and burn ever since they prevented RIF from working for their own ad-ridden version to be used.

Reddit has proper moderation. As in actual people moderate it. It basically has a lot of content that was verified by 'experts'. And they do it for free.

In the age of bots, fake news and AI generated pages Reddit is a pretty good source of actual facts. Search engines lean on it more and more so it means there's bunch of money in it.

At least that was the plan. If people will stop moderating there because of politics it's worthless.

This is basically it. It is just harder to run a fascist oligarchy these days. People are way too connected and are sympathetic to other people from other countries. The propaganda can only go so far.

for all the useful info

Recently, I've been questioning how useful the reddit info actually is. I've been lurking in multiple subreddits related to things I'm actually quite knowledgeable at, and the amount of times I've seen people asking questions and getting absolutely bogus answers that were highly downvoted was just... concerning. Not to mention how often the correct answer was heavily downvoted for absolutely no reason. That's when I realised - hey, maybe redditors aren't that smart after all? I can detect the bullshit for the things I actually know, then what about things that I don't? Should I trust them?

Not to mention that to get the info you want, usually you'll have to get through a bunch of shitty jokes, going off topic, rants and even some "totally-not-sponsored" comments.